Ricky Madhavan

Ricky was born in London, England in the Caribbean enclave ofLewishamand lived in Malaysia before moving to Florida. He had a rather nontraditional path to medicine and is the first MD in his family. He concentrated his early career on serving homeless and uninsured behavioral health populations in the urban and rural Florida populations before, during, and after college. Ricky completed a BA in Psychology with a minor in Sociology at the University of South Florida. There, he led a team in increasing municipal funding to Pinellas Hope, a private-public effort providing critical mobile health services and shelter to the neediest in the Tampa Bay area. He spent multiple years contributing to research teams investigating Mood and Anxiety Disorders as well as designing an FMRI study for chronic pain and fatigue while at the University of Florida. While initially considering Clinical Psychology, almost two years of working in non-profit community mental health helped him make the big switch to medicine. He completed his Post Baccalaureate Pre-Medical requirements at the University of Florida in the inaugural cohort of the program. He was extremely honored and humbled to be accepted to Harvard Medical School and was granted the HMS Dean’s Public Service Achievement and the Presidential Public Service award upon matriculation. As Community Service Chair of the SNMA, he led community outreach efforts to give preventive health seminars and promote science curriculum in urban schools. Ricky sees no better avenue where he could better serve others than Psychiatry. Psychiatry’s approach to interconnectedness of the individual, their environment, and mental illness never ceases to amaze him. Psychotherapy and narrative, to him, are invaluable tools for empowering patients to have the most agency in their own outcomes. As a Yale resident, he envisions himself becoming psychiatrist contributing to an integrative approach to healthcare and health education. Most of his free time is spent with his wife, Meriem, and their cat, Misty, and German Shepherd, Brock. Ricky is an avid Green Bay Packers fan and hardly misses a game. He enjoys podcasts, Youtube, and reading on various topics including public policy, philosophy, and various social phenomena.